Dear Doctor K: My doctor says my stomach pains are caused by gallstones and I need surgery to remove them. Can you describe the surgery? Dear Reader: Gallstones can cause bacterial infections of the ...

Surgeons at UCSF have taken a major step down the path toward less invasive procedures, performing San Francisco’s first gallbladder removal using only a single, small incision hidden within the navel ...

People might attribute midnight bouts of chest pain or waves of nausea to food poisoning, stress or a stubborn case of ...

In 1991 Dr. Joacques Perissat at the University of Bordeau, in France, announced to the World Congress of Surgeons that he had removed a gallbladder (cholecystectomy), using optical instruments ...

The painful spasms of a gallbladder attack often begin suddenly (sometimes after eating a fatty meal) and may last several hours. The attack is caused by one or more gallstones getting stuck in the ...

Male or female, no one wants to think about the prospect of developing gallstones. But according to the American College of Gastroenterology, women between the ages of 20 and 60 are three time more ...

When someone has gallstones, treatment typically involves the removal of their gallbladder. This is usually done laparoscopically, in a procedure known as a cholecystectomy. A group of scientists from ...

Dr. Christopher McIltrot, a board-certified surgeon on staff at Rowan Regional Medical Center, is performing gallbladder removal with an instrument that only requires one incision, becoming the first ...

Overall mortality was low (n = 7), and the frequency of various complications varied by the type of procedure used to clear stones from the biliary tract. With respect to avoiding postoperative ...

I was recently diagnosed with gallstones, and my doctor recommended surgery. Is this the best option, or can I consider other treatments? Gallstones are pebble-like deposits that form inside the ...

In a rare medical case from the national capital, a whopping 8,125 gallstones were removed from the abdomen of a 70-year-old man in a surgery that lasted an hour.While the surgery, conducted at the ...

A Coral Springs, Florida, surgeon has been restricted in his practice after a state complaint alleged problems with an appendix and two gall bladder removals PRNewsFoto A trio of surgical errors ...